#  Smoke Signals 

 



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- City of New Orleans
- Office of Performance and Data Analytics

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 In order to prevent fires, the city was able to use AHS data to identify variables— income as a proportion of poverty level, age of the structure, and length of tenancy— that could predict the presence of a smoke alarm, and then deliver smoke alarms to those houses

##  DATASETS

 American Housing Survey; American Community Survey

 [PROJECT LINK ](http://labs.enigma.io/smoke-signals/)



 

  [### Predicting Fire Risk: From New Orleans to a Nationwide Tool

 ](/news/article/predicting-fire-risk-from-new-orleans-to-a-nationwide-tool-846) June 09, 2016 

 When a fire broke out in a New Orleans home in October 2015, safety procedures worked exactly as they should – smoke alarms sounded, the occupants were alerted to the danger, and all 11 residents safely escaped from the house. Earlier that year, a new... 

 

 

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###  Topics 

- [Public Safety](/public-safety)